I yesterday took a steamer with a small company, consisting among others of Postmaster-General Blair, Senators Doolittle and Grimes, Messrs...

Company to dinner at four. Agassiz, George Ticknor, Professor Felton, Rev. Dr. Huntington, Charles Hale (Speaker of House of Representative...

But Abraham's draft is universally well received and has hurried up the volunteering at once. When it is filled, nearly half our milita...

August 5th, 1862. Old Abe has called out 300,000 men by draft, and has informed us that if the 300,000 volunteers do not appear by the ...

The recruiting goes on perfectly steadily. William Loring my old parishioner, who is Lt. Col. commanding the 34th wrote down to me to ask m...

I want to congratulate you specially on the dignity, spirit, decorum, and wisdom of the paper since the war began. I think it really deserv...

I doubt if we have any news. No other paper than ours had the final report of the Peace Conference. That august body seems to have done its...

March 24. dear Charles: I have just sent your name to Cabot as a member of the drill club. You will have to pay Salignac six dollars;...

February 26, 1861. There is not any news at all, but that we drilled with muskets yesterday for the first time. Why the pesky things di...